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Use Rifle
Rest Look Through
Bore Look Through Scope
Sight in your rifle with
only 3 shots!! Here’s how…
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Remove the bolt
and place the rifle on a stable base. The base can be sand bags, rolled up
towels, or a nice commercially sold rifle rest. The goal is to support both
the forearm and butt so that the rifle naturally points at the center of your
sight in target without any help from you.
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Set up a bold
target (one you can easily see, like a bright orange or black circle) at 25
yards from your table. Place it the same height as your rifle.
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Adjust your
rifle so that when you look through the bore from the rear of the barrel, you
see the target in the center of the bore. If you have the rifle supported the
rifle right, it should now point at the center of the target without any input
from you, hands off.
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Now look through
your scope. It will probably be pointing at a spot near your target but not
at the center of the target.
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Take the caps
off the scope and play with the knobs… The one on top will move the cross
hairs up and down on your target and the adjuster on the side moves the
crosshairs left and right on your target. Most scopes have an arrow with a
letter indicating that if you turned the adjuster in the direction the arrow
indicates, the point of aim will move in that direction. Take your time and
move the adjusters four or five clicks at a time until the crosshairs are
pointing at the same spot as the center of the bore.
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When both are
pointing at the same spot, reinstall the bolt, put your eye and ear protection
on, load and fire one round at the center of the 25 yd. target. Relax and be
sure to gently squeeze the shot off. If you did your part on the above steps,
you will now have a hole in your target within an inch or two of where the
scope was pointing when the shot was fired.
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Get the rifle
settled back into the rest so that, hands off, the scope points at the same
spot you held it on to fire your first shot, the center of the target.
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Gently turn the
adjuster knobs to move the scope’s point of aim to the point of the bullet’s
impact. You are making the scope point to where the barrel is launching
lead. When you have it pointing at the hole, you are ready for shot number
two.
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Move your target
out to 50 yards. Another shot at 25 yards is a waste of ammo. Load and fire
one round at the 50 yard target. This hole will be a little high and maybe a
little left or right. Settle the rifle back into the rest so that, hands off,
the scope points at the point of aim you took for your second shot, the center
of the target. Move the adjuster knobs to move the crosshairs from the center
of the target to the new bullet hole.
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Time for your
third shot. Move the target out to 100 yards. Go ahead and take your third
shot. It also will be a little high on your target. Most hunting rifles work
really well if you sight them in with 1 ½ inches high at 100 yards. This will
make the gun shoot about dead on at 200 yards and be an inch or so low out to
300 yards. All within 3 inches of your point of aim out to 300 yards. Move
the adjuster knobs to place the crosshairs on a spot 1½ inches under the
bullet hole from your third shot. Go ahead and take a few more shots if you
need to get the gun dialed in a little further.
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